TOMORROW, THE STARS

by William Walling

Overview

Perplexed by an unearthly stranger's inexplicable appearances, Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the alien entity�s origin becomes obvious and he is unable to do other than respond to any knowledge of faster-than-light spacecraft development. Baffled when only his voice registers on a recording of the exchange, his superior in orbital Galileo Observatory reluctantly reveals the existence of a covert effort to develop FTL interstellar flight. Sponsored by the wealthy daughter of the revered Nobel Laureate who �fathered� nuclear fusion power systems, Program Demeter�s remote base in the asteroid belt leaves its working personnel vulnerable to hindrance and near-lethal interference from a malicious, dedicated alien entity. Shore and his associates eventually learn that the stakes surrounding a successful FTL venture are infinitely greater than imagined. Reaching the nearest stellar system, a supreme technological triumph in itself, is also considered not only a major maturation benchmark for any �juvenile� species, but apparently qualifies humanity for inclusion in a forum composed of myriad, diverse galactic intelligences.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011821455
Publisher:	William Walling
Publication date:	10/08/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

A lifelong Californian and former aerospace engineer, William Walling was employed during the Desert Storm Conflict by a Menlo Park producer of Flight Motion Simulators, and more recently as technical journalist for a Santa Clara supplier of Global Positioning Systems. Ten of Bill's novels, plus numerous magazine novelettes, short stories, and science articles have been published to date, almost all in the vein of speculative fiction.

Editorial Reviews

I came here looking for a sequel to "The World I Left Behind Me" by William Walling...because it's a pretty good SF novel from the 70's and it is well written, similar to Heinlein's style in many respects - showing great promise, at least to ranking up there....Anyway, for this book I discovered that it has been renamed "Tomorrow, the Stars" which may sound familiar as Heinlein has a book by that very title...but nothing else is the same (whew!). The description is not as attractive

(USA) "See all my reviews." - Sam Hobson

Orbiting Galileo Observatory has an unexpected unearthly visitor who poses many questions about "faster-than-light" spacecraft development. Cosmologist Roger Shore finds his uninvited guest to be very strange and disturbing, and later learns his director is involved in making interstellar flight a reality. This novel is packed with aliens, mystery and a very vivid colorful imagination on the author's part, and you'll find it hard to let go of an forget upon reaching the end.

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